May 21, 2024
A $21M gift from Aiiso Yufeng Li (Jeff) and his wife, DongDong Li (Doreen), honors unique efforts at UC San Diego to link chemical and nano engineering more strongly. In recognition of this gift, the department will be named the Aiiso Yufeng Li Family Department of Chemical and Nano Engineering.
May 17, 2018
…on chips that use alternating electric currents to isolate nanoparticles, DNA and other molecules directly from blood and other biofluids. In the current ACS Nano paper, UC San Diego researchers used the exosome-isolating capability of Biological Dynamics technology to develop a custom assay for pancreatic cancer detection.
July 15, 2020
From mRNA vaccines entering clinical trials, to peptide-based vaccines and using molecular farming to scale vaccine production, the COVID-19 pandemic is pushing new and emerging nanotechnologies into the frontlines and the headlines.
October 4, 2016
Four biologists, a nanoengineer and a biophysicist at UC San Diego today received a total of more than $5 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health to pursue innovative and transformative research projects.
November 4, 2021
…the team adds magnetic nanoparticles designed to bind any viruses in the sewage. A robotic platform concentrates the viral samples and extracts viral RNA—the genetic material that makes up the genome of some viruses, including the COVID-19 virus. Viral RNA is transferred to another robotic machine that mixes it with…
December 8, 2022
UC San Diego’s ranks now include 18 fellows of the National Academy of Inventors. Three professors have been named 2022 NAI fellows, the highest professional distinction awarded to academic inventors.
March 19, 2015
…team is currently developing nanoparticles that can be injected into the body and made to swarm into inflamed problem areas such as tumors, where they could more effectively deliver medicine or even assemble to form larger things, such as a “scaffolding” to support failed heart tissue. Scott Klemmer, co-founder and…
September 6, 2012
Making buildings and bridges safer during earthquakes. Printed 3-D blood vessels and capillaries for regenerative medicine. Safer cardiac pumps for children born with heart defects. Giant art collections sorted with a click. Better composite materials for aircraft. In the new Structural and Materials Engineering building at the University of California,…
October 8, 2020
…harvested and repurposed as nanoparticles that fire up the immune system in mammals to attack tumors and metastases. She is also investigating how to add electronic viruses to plant tissue to create plant cyborgs that can be used for sensing molecules. “Plant viruses are scalable,” she said. “When you need…
January 11, 2024
A multidisciplinary team of researchers at UC San Diego developed a thin, transparent, flexible neural implant that can capture high-resolution information about activity deep inside the brain without damaging its delicate tissue.
